The Manics created some of the most beautiful, joyous music of my youth.
But they sold out when then flogged "Motorcycle Emptiness" to a mobile phone company for its advert.
I shan't be buying their new record.
There was an Irish woman on the radio the other day saying that not only did pubs in Dublin not have any people in them, but they smelled of Jeyes Fluid.
I'm not sure, on the grand scheme of things, whether this is better, or whether it'll just turn pubs into enormous empty atmos-free chasms...
Remember people: the laws say the bowling arm must be "straightened"... not "straight".
What the ICC has done is notice that Murali's natural doosra action leads to his muscles "kinking" his arm by 15 degrees. He couldn't physically straighten it any more. Therefore his arm is straightened...
If Prescott had made a judgment on the information put in front of him, he would have said no before now. It's precisely because of the flowers/cards/people talking to him in Japan that he's trying to get it sorted out for us without giving the antis a legal leg to stand on.
Bloody hell. Everything's MOR here, isn't it?
(in no particular order except for the top one)
LAUREN LAVERNE
PJ Harvey
Louise Wener
The bird out of the Duke Spirit
All of the Pipettes (http://www.thepipettes.co.uk)
Cerys Matthews
Sonia Echobelly
Kim Deal
Can I just say that I like LI's posts, and don't feel patronised by them either?
Anyway... I have heard from a single, non-attributable source that Prescott is taking this long to decide on Falmer because he actually owns the Swan (as well as another pub on Holderness Road in Hull. Not for...
The ODPM was created by Blair to assuage Prescott's passions, though. It's a funny sort of department. Can you not envisage it being split up (as has happened many times already)... perhaps between Defra, Transport, and a bolstered-up "Constitutional Affairs and Local Government" department...
Ivor Caplin to resign
From the BBC:
"The Junior defence minister and Hove MP, Ivor Caplin, is stepping down at the next general election. The Labour MP says he's keen to take on "new challenges" in his working life. Mr Caplin has represented the people of Hove and Portslade for a decade...